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Monday, July 25, 2016

Consciousness: The Mind Messing With the Mind

By George JohnsonThe New York Times
Originally published July 4, 2016

Here is an excerpt:

Michael Graziano, a neuroscientist at Princeton University, suggested to the audience that consciousness is a kind of con game the brain plays with itself. The brain is a computer that evolved to simulate the outside world. Among its internal models is a simulation of itself — a crude approximation of its own neurological processes.

The result is an illusion. Instead of neurons and synapses, we sense a ghostly presence — a self — inside the head. But it’s all just data processing.